Tax Fraud

British politicians accuse Theresa May of turning a "blind eye to President Putin's kleptocrats". A parliamentary committee has accused the government of empty rhetoric after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

Bankers have cheated the state by more than ten billion euros with dubious dividends known as cum-ex transactions. The Federal Committee of Inquiry has now requested the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) the search of business premises of the firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and the confiscation of documents.

The court for tax evasion was delayed because of a prosecution of the expert in OKD affair Because of arrest of businessman Martin Uher and his companion Pavlína Nováčková in 2006, the police started to uncover one of the biggest cases regarding tax evasion for sold propellant. Finally after ten years of investigating, public prosecutor managed to bring five persons to justice. Unfortunately the court denied taking an expert’s opinion, regarding accountancy of interested companies, into consideration. The main author Rudolf Doucha is prosecuting because of a distorted opinion on his basis the Czech Republic should lose 5.7 billion Czech crowns, when the state sold their own stake in OKD. Doucha is suspended, so he can’t confirm his expert’s opinion. By force of these circumstances, the president of the senate decided to make a new expert’s analysis, said a press agent of the Pilsen district court. But this should be a problem because it has been lost some important accountancy documents, according to press Právo. Three businessmen, one accountant and one layer face several charges of fraud and legalization revenues from criminal activity. According to the expert analysis, already mentioned Uher and Nováčková were the main actors of the fraud and through companies Solitor, Radeost and OilMaster imported since 2014 to 2016 to Czech Republic hundreds of tank trucks with petrol and did not pay the full excise tax. Accused businessmen did not manipulate with tax return and they officially declare their duty to pay the debts. They said that they wanted to pay, but their companies do not have money, so they can’t afford it. To make this impression, they show fake transactions. In the papers, it looks like they do not have money, but in fact, they have big profits. Prosecuted traders used the opportunity of the introduction of free trade within the European Union in May 2004, when customs controls disappeared from the borders.

Fiscal investigations on 500 people in France, as a consequence of the Panama Papers scandal: the budget office of the Finance Ministry said Thursday its experts have studied the leaked information and are now digging deeper into 560 specific cases.

Arsenal's top striker Alexis Sanchez is suspected of having evaded nearly one million euros of taxes.

The man from Syria, who ran a business in Slovakia, had allegedly financially supported the terrorist organization the Islamic State. Server Aktuality.sk informed last week, that the case has been investigated by Criminal Office of Slovak financial management. Dana Meagerová, the Deputy of Slovak Minister of Finance stated that: „Criminal Office of Financial Management noted a case where the Slovak resident of Syria used excessive deductions of value added tax to finance the Islamic State". Part of the money was appointed directly to the mentioned terrorist organization, but most of the money have passed through several countries to lose track. The case is under investigation now, and subject to a tax secret.

A number of Dutch companies may be involved in a fraud network that defrauded at least one billion euros and possibly funded terrorist organizations. The companies involved would not have paid the tax on the trading of CO2-certificates. Zembla calls it "the biggest tax fraud in history".

Radovan Krejčíř wants to come back to the Czech Republic, he offers a confession to all his crimes. The czech citizen Radovan Krejčíř, who was judged in the Rebublic of South Africa (RSA), requested for a transportation back to the Czech Republic. Previous attempts of the Czech Republic to get him back were denied because of his bribery of the main judge. Now he changed his mind and he wants to confess to all his crimes in exchange for parallel ten years sentences. In a brief to the NPA (National Prosecuting Authority), his new lawyer, Eric Bryer, stated, that Krejčíř wants to confess to all his crimes in exchange for parallel ten years sentences, but he wants to be trasported back to Czech Republic, which agreed according to his czech lawyers. In the brief is also mentioned, that Radovan Krejčíř had corruption deals with highly ranked policie and justice offcials and he will také the stand against them, but only in the safety from the Czech Republic. He faces to six cirminal accusation and was already convicted for a kidnapping and a murder to 35 years in prison.

James Grant, the defense attorney of Radovan Krejčíř, asked the court for permission of psychiatric examination to his client. According to him, escaped Czech businessman is suffering from delusions. He doesn´t understand payments for lawyer services and he thinks that foreign countries offer him minister posts. Krejčíř was in Johannesburg sentenced to a 35 years imprisonment for an attempted murder, kidnapping and drug trafficking.

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has warned that identity theft is more common during "tax time" because of the large number of people lodging tax returns.